Professional Experience

Kern is the co-director and co-founder of the Oxford Bank Governance programme at the University of Oxford Said Business School (2021-present). In this capacity, he teaches bank board members the principles of bank board governance and regulation, and he chairs panels from leading experts in banking sector on the latest developments in bank governance and strategy. https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/kern-alexander

Previously, Kern was the academic course director (2014-2023) for the face to face and online variants of the Certificate course Understanding the Regulatory Environment for the Barclays Compliance Academy at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.  He delivered full day and half day sessions concerning various topics on the principles and standards of international banking regulation and their relevance for bank compliance, governance and strategy. This course is run in partnership with Barclays Bank.  He also taught the Principles of Financial Regulation course at the Judge Business School for the Master of Finance and MBA programme. In this capacity, Kern consistently received student evaluations for his teaching and the course content.

Kern also delivered 3 full-day sessions per year on the legal and regulatory aspects of financial regulation and supervision and marks the examination papers for the Bank of England’s Master of Science in Finance and Economics Course run in conjunction with the University of Warwick Business School (2018-2022).

At the University of Zurich, Kern teaches a full-day session on international financial regulation and sustainability as part of the Certificate in Sustainable Finance course run by the University of Zurich Center for Sustainable Finance.           

Bank Governance and Regulation courses (executive education)

• Sustainable Finance and Regulation

How sustainability is being integrated into financial market regulation – an analysis of international standards and comparative survey of countries – China, Brazil, European Union, United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland

• Bank Capital and Risk Management Requirements

Integrating bank capital requirements and governance standards into bank strategy

• Financial Conduct, Organisational Culture and Ethics

Socio-organizational causes of misconduct, Human and Horizontal Agency, The role of remuneration and status